Category Archive: Exchange

There are multiple ways to enable tracing/debugging following the guidelines as stated here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb430768.aspx or http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb430783 During a training session Brad Owen provided a tip on how to enable SIP tracing on the Exchange UM servers. To enable tracing on the Exchange UM servers, perform the following steps: 1. Open CMD prompt 2.Go to: cd …

Cisco has posted a blog with an encouraging notice on their mail platform… They will ‘listen’ tot heir customers… This resulted in the discontinuity of Cisco mail… Some nice quotes… We’ve also heard that customers are eager to embrace emerging collaboration tools such as social software and video. As you would expect, we will assist …

Microsoft has announced that support for User Datagram Protocol (UDP) functionality will be added back into Microsoft Exchange Server 2010. Because UDP notification support was removed from Exchange 2010, users of Outlook 2003 experienced latency in sending and receiving e-mails when connected to Exchange 2010. More details about this issue can be found in the …

Thanks to my colleague Leiby Kandyba for pointing me to this nice feature for Outlook 2007 and 2010.: The primary function is to add a couple of buttons to the Outlook ribbon to prevent people from doing a reply-all to your message, or forwarding it (using a facility built into Outlook & Exchange which is …

Prereqs: Download: Forefront for Exchange Version 10 with Service Pack 2 http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=2ceb14d4-404b-4d8f-8a21-ebfc71b2e82b&displaylang=en Exchange 2007 SP3 (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=1687160b-634a-43cb-a65a-f355cff0afa6&displaylang=en) Exchange 2007 SP3 Rollup 1 (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=ae45d06e-dcb7-43d8-b1ff-d3953836425b&displaylang=en) Note for Forefront Protection for Exchange users For those of you running Forefront Protection for Exchange, be sure you perform these important steps from the command line in the Forefront directory before and …

There are some requirements before you can deploy Exchange SP1, they are documented here. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb691354(EXCHG.141).aspx I will write another post regarding the enhancements of SP1 shortly

If you are using an iPhone with IOS v4 (3G, 3GS & 4), please open this URL on your iPhone and update the Apple Airsync profile. Issue: Apple used extremely aggressive Airsync settings in IOS v4 that can cause email to not send and raised Exchange server load. Fix: The updated profile from Apple extends …

Microsoft Exchange Server Jetstress 2010 – Jetstress 2010 is used to verify the performance and stability of a disk subsystem prior to putting an Exchange Server server into production. Jetstress helps verify disk performance by simulating Exchange disk I/O. Specifically, Jetstress simulates the Exchange database and log file loads produced by a specific number of …

Today I’ve passed the 70-662 (Configuring Exchange 2010) and already passed the 70-663 (Deploying and designing Exchange 2010) in the Beta period in December. So I’m proud to say that I’m officially MCITP Exchange 2010. The 662 exam was pretty easy (I even scored 1000 points) if at least know the following topics:

Microsoft has announced the release of the Exchange Server Pre-Deployment Analyzer (ExPDA). You can use the Exchange Pre-Deployment Analyzer to perform an overall topology readiness scan of your environment. When you run the Exchange Pre-Deployment Analyzer, it provides a detailed report that will alert you if there are any issues within your organization, which could prevent …